TURNTABLE FOR ONE

The earth is heating up, ice caps and glaciers are melting, the seas are rising, and many species, including our own, are threatened with extinction. What are we going to do? Well, I did what I always do: I exploited these serious problems, trivializing them with two hours of catchy, swinging, and often ironic songs. Some of them were comments on current conditions; others were things we need to curtail to save the planet. The first song was an answer to “What’s going to be the new capital city of the East Coast?” The second song was written in 1921 but casts an eerie darkness to what’s going on today. Just to be a pro-active citizen, I recycled and re-used a previous mystery vocalist. And as for the last two songs: which one will future generations be singing? That’s up to us now.

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

• GARY, INDIANA  /  Janet Planet  /  “Of Thee I Sing”
• THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE  /  Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing  /  “On Time”
• TOO DARN HOT  /  Claire Teal & The London Gay Big Band  /  “Brave”
• BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE  /  Ray Charles & Betty Carter  /  “Ray Charles & Betty Carter”
• ROUTE 66  /  Mark Winkler  /  “I’m With You”
• SUNDAY DRIVIN’  /  Ryan Truesdale’s Gil Evans Project  /  “Lines Of Color”
• MY BUICK, MY LOVE, AND I  /  Seth MacFarlane  /  “In Full Swing”
• COME FLY WITH ME  /  Shirley Horn  /  “Close Enough For Love”
• LET’S MAKE LOVE ON THIS PLANE  /  Rachael & Vilray  /  “Rachael & Vilray”
• SWINGING ON A STAR  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Anthony Perkins  /  “From The Heart”
• A SLEEPIN’ BEE  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “I Just Dropped By To Say Hello”
• FRIM FRAM SAUCE  /  Diana Krall  /  “All For You”
• INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL  /  Dianne Reeves  /  “Good Night, Good Luck”
• THE RAIN IN SPAIN  /  Adrian Cunningham & His Friends  /  “Play Lerner & Loewe”
• RIVER STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR  /  Spike Jones  /  “Omnibust/60 Years of Music America Hates”
• ILL WIND  /  Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie  /  “Send In The Clowns”
• GONE WITH THE WIND  /  Greta Matassa  /  “Portrait”
• WALKIN’  /  The Real Group  /  “Unreal”
• WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT  /  Staci Griesbach  /  “My Patsy Cline Songbook”
• THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA  /  Nat King Cole & Gregory Porter  /  “Ultimate Nat Cole”
• BACKYARD MEDLEY  /  Calabria Foti  /  “Prelude To A Kiss”
• DANCING IN THE DARK  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Come Dance With Me”
• IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW  /  Ranee Lee  /  “Dark Divas: Highlights”
• LOUISIANA 1927  /  Randy Newman  /  “Good Old Boys”
• HERE’S THAT RAINY DAY  /  Stan Getz Quartet  /  “Nobody Else But Me”
• EVER SINCE THE WORLD ENDED  /  Mose Allison  /  “American Legend: Live In California”
• WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD  /  Tony Bennett & k.d. lang  /  “A Wonderful World”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Did you miss this week’s show?  Click here  before the world comes to a sorry end and then click on my name in the drop-down menu to listen to the archive program.

Turntable For One Facebook page here.

Podcasts on PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, here:

Turntable For One full-length shows are on Mixcloud, here:

Tags: Adrian Cunningham, Anthony Perkins, Betty Carter, Calabria Foti, Claire Teal, Cody Owen Stine, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Porter, Greta Matassa, H. William Stine, Janet Planet, jazz, jazz radio, jazz singers, jazz vocalists, jazz vocals, Jimmy Rushing, johnny hartman, k.d. lang, live radio, Mark Winkler, Mose Allison, Nat King Cole, playlists, PRX, Rachael & Vilray, radio, Randy Newman, Ranee Lee, Ray Charles, Ryan Truesdale, Sarah Vaughan, Seth MacFarlane, Shirley Horn, Spike Jones, Staci Griesbach, Stan Getz, The London Gay Big Band, The Real Group, Tony Bennett, turntable, Turntable For One, wmnr, wmnr fine arts